Lufthansa, Germany's number one airline, says its passenger numbers rose again in January.
Lufthansa on Tuesday said, in a statement, it carried 6.943 million passengers in last month, 2.0 per cent more than during the same month last year.
At the same time, the airline reduced the number of flights by 1.2 per cent.
That meant the so-called seat-load factor, which measures the number of seats filled on flights, increased by 0.8 percentage point to 75.6 per cent in January.
"The airlines of Lufthansa group improved the load factors for their aircraft once again in the new year," the statement said.
In addition to the Lufthansa brand, the group also owns SWISS and Austrian Airlines.
The volume of freight transported by its Lufthansa Cargo unit increased by 1.2 per cent to 116,000 tonnes in January, the statement added.
